~ "The world was made so that Christ might be born…." ~David Fergusson

Sofia

The first time I read through the Bible, about 12 years ago now, I came across that passage in I Kings 3 that says:

9. So give your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of yours? . . . 12. behold, I have done according to your words. Behold, I have given you a wise and discerning heart, so that there has been no one like you before you, nor shall one like you arise after you. ~I Kings 3:9, 12

The context is Solomon just taking over the “Kingdom” from his father David, Yahweh comes to Solomon in a dream and tells him to ask for whatever he wants. Verse 9 is what Solomon asked for, wisdom, and verse 12 is the LORD’s response . . . He gave him wisdom.

After I first read this I thought, why don’t I ask for wisdom, like Solomon, so I did! And I kept reading, and finally came to I Corinthians 1:30, which says:

But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, . . .

and I realized that the LORD had already answered my I Kings prayer, in Jesus! 😉

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A Little Thomas Torrance

"God loves you so utterly and completely that he has given himself for you in Jesus Christ his beloved Son, and has thereby pledged his very being as God for your salvation. In Jesus Christ God has actualised his unconditional love for you in your human nature in such a once for all way, that he cannot go back upon it without undoing the Incarnation and the Cross and thereby denying himself. Jesus Christ died for you precisely because you are sinful and utterly unworthy of him, and has thereby already made you his own before and apart from your ever believing in him. He has bound you to himself by his love in a way that he will never let you go, for even if you refuse him and damn yourself in hell his love will never cease. Therefore, repent and believe in Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour." ~T. F. Torrance, "The Mediation of Christ", 94